Behind the face

9- Letting Go

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She knew her parents blamed her and for sometime she also blamed herself. She came back home every Easter, Christmas and Summer holiday but her relationship with her parents were strained. Her mother tried to make up for it but she wasn't that kid anymore. She loved her parents and all but she was still hurt from everything. They even tried to transfer her from her school back to America but she wasn't interested anymore. She had come to love her school. Although she hated the doctrines and the punishment, she became used to it. The nuns were the worst part of her stay. Their strictness and love for absolute obedience and holiness made her their normal candidate for punishment. She learned to make a few friends who shared her rebellion spirit and hatred for restraints.

Alice, whose father was a Duke in London and was ashamed of his hot-tempered daughter. Rachel, with her innocent face but was the craftiest of minds and Abigail, the chaplain's niece who was the opposite of everything holy. The three of them made her stay bearable as they were something she never had in forever.

Friends.

Graduating from The Lady of Fatima College was one of the best and worst days of Laura's life. She was happy to leave this place especially as she just got accepted by Harvard to study law. But she would also miss her friends and the shenanigans the pulled together. She was sixteen and she was going to the university studying the course of her dreams. Her life has never been more perfect.

Or so she thought.

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She remembers that day like it was yesterday. It was a day she wished never happened.

She just came back from her second semester break in her sophomore year. She needed some of her old books so she went to the basement. She was supposed to go grocery shopping with her mother but she knew she had to find the book first because grocery shopping for her mom meant a day talking to everyone they met at Gail's store.

She remembered seeing a folder covered with dust. Forgotten and abandoned. It was hidden in a way like it was not meant to be found. Behind a cupboard covered in dust and cobwebs she pulled it out.

Confidential. It read.

She knew it was wrong to open it but her curiosity was too much. She needed to know. And she regretted it. It was the papers for her adoption. She, Laura Katherine Montez was adopted. A closed adoption. And in her seventeen years on this earth they never told her. It started to make sense to her. How her parents were so happy when they had the baby. How they couldn't look at her when the lost the baby. How they sent her, no, banished her, a ten year old child to a strange country, in a strange land without any consideration. She now knew why no matter how she cried her parents could overlook it and tell her it was for her own good.

She remembered how she cried and marched up to her mother's room demanding an explanation. She shouted and cursed and screamed until she couldn't talk anymore. Then she stormed out of the house and never came back. Luckily for her, her father had already taken care of her college fees. She cut herself from her family and started her life from the scratch. That was when she met Rhonda and Nathan.

Many people said she was over reacting and would soon come back and apologize to her parents but she proved them wrong. She survived on her own and made a name for herself without anyone's help. She knew she should have forgiven her parents but it wasn't easy. She had blamed herself for so many things growing up and it created a dent in her. She was never enough and she knew it. Maybe that was why her relationships never worked. Even as a grown woman who recently lost her child, she understands the pain and all but she still can't forgive them. She was just a child who was trying to help her mother and wrote a stupid sentence in her book that many children think when they have a new sibling. She didn't deserve it and she couldn't let the thought out of her head that if it was him that was in her position they would have forgiven him.